ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN DECEMBER
Saints celebrated on the 4th of December
Prayer to the Angels and the Saints
Heavenly Father, in praising Your Angels and Saints we praise Your glory, for by honouring them we honour You, their Creator. Their splendour shows us Your greatness, which infinitely surpasses that of all creation.
In Your loving providence, You saw fit to send Your Angels to watch over us. Grant that we may always be under their protection and one day enjoy their company in heaven.
Heavenly Father, You are glorified in Your Saints, for their glory is the crowning of Your gifts. You provide an example for us by their lives on earth, You give us their friendship by our communion with them, You grant us strength and protection through their prayer for the Church, and You spur us on to victory over evil and the prize of eternal glory by this great company of witnesses.
Grant that we who aspire to take part in their joy may be filled with the Spirit that blessed their lives, so that, after sharing their faith on earth, we may also experience their peace in heaven. Amen.
ST SIGIRANNUS, ABBOT AND CONFESSOR
Saint Sigirannus [Siran] was a native of Berry, and of noble extraction; studied in his youth at Tours, and was afterwards cup-bearer to King Clotaire II.
HE ALWAYS WORE A HAIRSHIRT UNDER HIS GARMENTS
Whilst he lived at court he always wore a rough hairshirt under his garments, and devoted the greater part of his time to holy prayer.
To give himself up wholly to this heavenly exercise he took holy Orders at Tours in 625, and served that church some time in quality of archdeacon.
A PENITENTIAL PILGRIMAGE TO ROME
In 640 he made a penitential pilgrimage to Rome, and after his return founded two monasteries in the diocese of Bourges, the one called Meobec or Millepecus, and the other Lonrey, now St Siran’s near Maisiers. This latter he governed with great sanctity till his death, which happened in 655.
(From Fr Butler's Lives of the Saints)
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